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ArticleBioMed research international2013

An approach for identifying cytokines based on a novel ensemble classifier.

Quan Zou, Zhen Wang, Xinjun Guan, Bin Liu, Yunfeng Wu, Ziyu Lin

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Article in BioMed research international, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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Quan ZouSchool of Information Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China ; Center for Cloud Computing and Big Data, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China ; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Shanghai, China.
Zhen Wang
Xinjun Guan
Bin Liu
Yunfeng Wu
Ziyu Lin

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Abstract

Biology is meaningful and important to identify cytokines and investigate their various functions and biochemical mechanisms. However, several issues remain, including the large scale of benchmark datasets, serious imbalance of data, and discovery of new gene families. In this paper, we employ the machine learning approach based on a novel ensemble classifier to predict cytokines. We directly selected amino acids sequences as research objects. First, we pretreated the benchmark data accurately. Next, we analyzed the physicochemical properties and distribution of whole amino acids and then extracted a group of 120-dimensional (120D) valid features to represent sequences. Third, in the view of the serious imbalance in benchmark datasets, we utilized a sampling approach based on the synthetic minority oversampling technique algorithm and K-means clustering undersampling algorithm to rebuild the training set. Finally, we built a library for dynamic selection and circulating combination based on clustering (LibD3C) and employed the new training set to realize cytokine classification. Experiments showed that the geometric mean of sensitivity and specificity obtained through our approach is as high as 93.3%, which proves that our approach is effective for identifying cytokines.

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Artificial IntelligenceAlgorithmsAmino AcidsBase SequenceComputational BiologyCytokinesHumansSensitivity and SpecificityAmino AcidsCytokines

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